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03255aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 BE9741C8586511EA978CCE3397128E48 003 SILO 005 20200226010029 008 190128t20192019enkaf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781526716552 020 $a 1526716550 035 $a (OCoLC)1083466514 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d YDXIT $d NTG $d YDX $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d NZAUC $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d IaU-L $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a HQ999.G7 $b M38 2019 082 04 $a 306.85 $2 23 100 1 $a Matthews, Helen, $e author. 245 14 $a The legitimacy of bastards : $b the place of illegitimate children in later medieval England / $c Helen Matthews. 264 1 $a Barnsley, South Yorkshire ; $b Pen and Sword History, $c 2019. 300 $a xxx, 216 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b color illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising that so many of them had mistresses and illegitimate children. John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, married at the age of twenty to a ten-year-old granddaughter of Edward I, had at least eight bastards and a complicated love life. In theory, bastards were at a considerable disadvantage. Regarded as 'filius nullius' or the son of no one, they were unable to inherit real property and barred from the priesthood. In practice, illegitimacy could be less of a stigma in late medieval England than it became between the sixteenth and late twentieth centuries. There were ways of making provision for illegitimate offspring and some bastards did extremely well: in the church; through marriage; as soldiers; a few even succeeding to the family estates. The Legitimacy of Bastards is the first book to consider the individuals who had illegitimate children, the ways in which they provided for them and attitudes towards both the parents and the bastard children. It also highlights important differences between the views of illegitimacy taken by the Church and by the English law. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-210) and index. 505 0 $a Chapter 1. Bastardy in theory: The legal context -- Chapter 2. A case study of bastardy in practice: The Warenne family and after -- Chapter 3. Sexual misconduct: Marriage and adultery; Bastard bearers and their social status -- Chapter 4. The inheritance of bastards -- Chapter 5. Social status, career and opportunities for bastards -- Chapter 6. The end of an era?. 650 0 $a Illegitimacy $z England $x History. 650 0 $a Marriage $z England $x History. 650 0 $a Courtship $z England $x History. 650 0 $a Illegitimate children $z Great Britain. 650 7 $a Courtship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00881873 650 7 $a Illegitimacy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00967190 650 7 $a Illegitimate children. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00967203 650 7 $a Marriage. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01010443 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317040826.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BE9741C8586511EA978CCE3397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search